- the amount of freedom that you have to change something or to do something in the way you want to synonym latitude
- How much leeway should parents give their children?
Idioms
See leeway in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarymake up leeway
- (British English) to get out of a bad position that you are in, especially because you have lost a lot of time
- He’s unlikely to make up the leeway at this stage of the race.
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